Uphill Gardening Is Hurting My butt.

[Marcus]

Nice compost bins

Thanks man!

I slung a couple of kg of worms in there too just to see if it helps.

They are set up as hugelkultur kind of bin so I can plant in them if need be, but I've built some raised beds for the wife to grow her HUGE marrows in and these need moving later in the year.

i couldnt find a solid resource to link sorry

might be a case of walking around the garden centre looking at labels of stuff that ya think looks nice for what will grow where ya want it

dont stress competition between plants too much, just give them a good spacing for now and they will settle into what area they have over the next few years. nice thick mulch after planting too will help keep weeding to a minimum

No worries Mo. Cheers dude!

I wondered if garden centres provided a service where they made a planting plan for gardens and then sold you the plants as part of a deal????

[Mafooo]

Low maintenance good smelling stuff:

Magnolia
Lavender
Anise hyssop
Russian sage
Lemon balm
Monarda
Loads of spreading mints if that doesnt bother you
Rosemary
Perennial thyme or oregano

Fibrous rootstock for erosion control:

Dwarf spruce
Yew
Creeping juniper
Ornamental grass (theres loads of cool looking ones)
I think the rosemary and oregano would also fit this bill

Other perennials of various size to consider:
Rhubarb
Hydrangea
Woodland sage or others
Lovage

These are all plants (except rosemary) that would work in my northern climate where it gets subzero in winter.

Im assuming these would perform well in your area but I could be wrong.

Happy to give some suggestions if you provide dimensions

[Mafooo]

I liked Mo’s suggestion of a blueberry or currants. Theres loads of berries that might do well on a hillside as long as it gets enough moisture. If you have access to Honeyberry out there they are really making a scene in the fruit shrub game atm.

I am also a fan of gooseberry, elderflower, and serviceberry (comes in tree and shrub types)

[Marcus]

Low maintenance good smelling stuff:

Magnolia
Lavender
Anise hyssop
Russian sage
Lemon balm
Monarda
Loads of spreading mints if that doesnt bother you
Rosemary
Perennial thyme or oregano

Fibrous rootstock for erosion control:

Dwarf spruce
Yew
Creeping juniper
Ornamental grass (theres loads of cool looking ones)
I think the rosemary and oregano would also fit this bill

Other perennials of various size to consider:
Rhubarb
Hydrangea
Woodland sage or others
Lovage

These are all plants (except rosemary) that would work in my northern climate where it gets subzero in winter.

Im assuming these would perform well in your area but I could be wrong.

Happy to give some suggestions if you provide dimensions

Cheers Mafoo.

I cut down a 20 foot magnolia tree last autumn. The flowers looked good for a bout 4 days a year as we get late frosts here.

I'll have a mooch through the list, we're getting lavender, sage and thyme out front to take over a bit where the local cat's shit. Either that or my .22 is getting dusted off.

I tried ornamental grasses in our old house, but most of them died when winter hit. I got a couple of old books on grasses of the world, you've reminded me to dig them out.

Working it out, we have 100m2 of grass we need eradicating as it's on daft sloped ground. My shoulder is letting me know that we need no more terracing digging out. I'm hoping the dope kicks in soon to numb the pain.
So we are looking a things like Marguerite daisies for edging leading in to maybe a nice hardy hibiscus inbetween and finishing with a tall tree or clematis/honeysuckle type thing,.

I managed to save a downy birch sapling from the strimmer last year and he's doing well in his pot, so I may grab some birch whips and some willow etc too. Keep em trained and coppice them when they get too tall, then snip off unwanted shoots. (I know how to do that bit of gardening!)

[Mafooo]

If youre looking for low maintenance ground cover you may also have success with creeping phlox, snow-on-the-mountain, wintergreen, or ajuga.

If you want some spots of color consider iris, woodland phlox, delphinium, or goldenrod. All of these would do fine under a partial shade canopy

[Marcus]

I've been pondering on that No Dig method of growing, cardboard on grass and just topsoil then plant through if in a rush, or leave for a few months for the grass to die off and then plant, and it got me thingkingying.

(please excuse the dug, meet the new shithead, same as the old shithead...)



I have a few of these kinds of boxes, drop em, fill em with soil and then plant the big shrubs in them, they should grow out and shade out the grass overtime too... maybe?

I think it's worth a 2 - 3 month experiment with my cherry tree that I had to move last weekend.

Might dig in my wallet and buy some auto seeds too, I can pretend they're shrubs a local farmer gave me if anyone sniffs them out.

[GMO]

love it. only thing i can think is that weed seeds love bare soil, maybe some kinda sheet or mulch to save ya picking out lil fuckers all summer

[Marcus]

love it. only thing i can think is that weed seeds love bare soil, maybe some kinda sheet or mulch to save ya picking out lil fuckers all summer

I've got some new underpants on the way so I could mulch my old ones.

Or just pop more card on top maybe?

[GMO]

sounds like a plan to me

[Marcus]

Well.

So far the sum of all my gardening has resulted in...

*FANFARE* *TRUMPET PARPS*



4 fucken deformed chillis...